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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:01:21
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- In-reply-to: franl@centerline.com's message of 27 Jan 93 11:50:49
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- In article <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
- >Which is it: Do gcc and gdb understand HP debug info or don't they?
-
- They don't. The port of GAS that Utah did for the hp-pa uses a
- different symbol table format that gdb can understand (probably dbx
- stabs, but I haven't actually checked). But the assembler language is
- different from the native HPUX one too, so when you build gcc you have
- to either arrange always to use gas or never to (which means using the
- native assembler). If you use the native assembler, gdb won't be able
- to debug the resulting executables.
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